The temporary exhibition hall of the Galería de las Colecciones Reales in Madrid (calle Bailén, s/n), will host the exhibition Sorolla, one hundred years of modernity from mid-October 2024 to February 2025. The exhibition is organized by Patrimonio Nacional and Light Art Exhibitions in collaboration with the Museo Sorolla and the Fundación Museo Sorolla.
The Museo Sorolla, which will be temporarily closed for renovation in early October, will move its most emblematic works to this exhibition so that the public can continue admiring them.
This exhibition is intended as a celebration of the painter’s work at the end of his centenary, for which it has gathered 77 of his paintings representative of all the phases of his production and the main themes addressed by the artist. Many are among the most important and highest quality, and some have rarely or never been seen before in Spain. They come from institutions that have the best collections about the painter, such as the Museo Sorolla and the Fundación Museo Sorolla, the Hispanic Society of America, the Museo del Prado or the Museo de Bellas Artes de Asturias, and the Colección Pedro Masaveu; of major museums such as the Musée d’Orsay, the Colección of Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza and Banco Santander, as well as national and international private collections, including some from the USA and Mexico.
The exhibition addresses the validity of Joaquín Sorolla’s work and the modernity of his painting, which, one hundred years after the artist’s death, maintains its current relevance and freshness. The curator of the exhibition is Blanca Pons-Sorolla, great-granddaughter of Sorolla and expert in his work, together with Consuelo Luca de Tena, former director of the Museo Sorolla, and Enrique Varela Agüí, current director of the Museo Sorolla. The catalogue of the exhibition also includes the participation of specialists in Sorolla’s work, such as Javier Barón, Carlos Reyero or Carlos G. Navarro, among others. It is now possible to book tickets through this link.
